Switzerland is offering to pay $76,000 to a Jewish man whose parents were murdered in Auschwitz after Swiss authorities deported them in 1942. The Swiss government’s offer to Charles Sonabend, a 69-year-old London resident, is not an admission of wrongdoing, said a spokesman for Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger.
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